Saturday, 29 August 2009

Have you seen Spotify yet? Music you want, when you want it. http://ping.fm/XxEO9
Updated Free Firewall from Comodo, http://ping.fm/3pNIj
Got kids between 3-12, kep them safe online. http://ping.fm/lpFTY
Looking for a free antivirus software? http://ping.fm/VotIy

Friday, 28 August 2009

www.businessinfalkirk.co.uk looking for local tradesmen in Falkirk for free advertising and business opportunities.
Now have multiple IM contact available on the website http://ping.fm/mNiZD
Need a temporary Email address http://ping.fm/8UzrW

Monday, 24 August 2009

What do you do with Twitter

So Twitter is huge, millions of people all over the world posting updates all about their daily lives in 140 letters or less, well that is how it all may have started but things in the Twitterverse have changed quite a bit. Twitter has become the internet news ticker, if you want to quickly spread the word about something then you Tweet about it, if the people decide if it is interesting enough then the news will spread quickly but only if the people find it interesting, you can throw millions into advertising each year and get nowhere near the ammount of publicity a good tweet can produce.

This Twitter Video is one of the first things I seen regarding Twitter and if you are still unsure why Twitter has become so popular then this might help

Twitter in Plain English

Twitter is the fastest moving site on the internet and new and improved ways to Tweet are popping up all the time, you can tweet from everything now it seems with Iphones, Blackberry's, desktop software and your browser,  there are also lots of other things you can do with Twitter and here are just a few of them.

File Social
With FileSocial, you can upload and share all types of files (images, music, compressed files…) through your Twitter account. The comments you send or receive through FileSocial will automatically appear as @reply in Twitter.

Blip FM
Share the music you enjoy with your Twitter followers with Blip FM

Twitpic
Twitpic lets you post pictures from your phone or desktop straight to Twitter,  watch the frontpage for a min or two and see what pictures others are sharing.

Twitvid
Share videos from your phone or desktop with your Twitter account.

in the end Twitter is whatever you want it to be, your insight into the latest trends and topics, a promotional tool for your business, or just as it started out, the way you keep up to date with your friends and family. 






Saturday, 22 August 2009

Old User Manual

Find the manual you have been looking for from this great site
User Manuals

Need a Free antivirus that wont slow down your computer

Panda has come up with a clever cloud based antivirus and it's free
http://centralpcrepairs.co.uk/index.php?/free-antivirus-panda-cloud.html

Looking for a File Extension

Trying to find out what software a file is opened with can be tricky if it is somethoing outside of the usual jpg, doc and xls formats, here is a site that may just help.
http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html

Disposable Email

If you need to sign up for a a forum or other site but are not too keen on giving them your real email try a disposable one instead, the email expires after 60 mins so you can sign up, confirm the account then sign in without giving any of your real email addresses away
http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Friday, 21 August 2009

Change Internet Explorer Home Page

A screencast from Central PC Repairs on how to change your Internet Explorer Home page.
Original Page


Wednesday, 19 August 2009

How Do I ?

Have you ever wondered how to do something on the computer but were not quite sure where to start or even what software to use, well you are not the only one and your best friend is Google, why? I will show you.

Ok take a common senario, you are trying to make a movie with all your pictures from holiday and would like to add some music then burn it to a DVD but have no idea where to start, well Microsoft have provided you with a nice free bit of software when you bought your computer called "Windows Movie Maker" so for a start there is no need to go and buy some expensive video editing kit that you will probablly never use.

The next question is how do I use it? well I could write a long blog on how you go about creating a movie in Movie Maker or why not try a google search for "Movie Maker Tutorials" in Google, this will give you hundreds of links from all over the internet where people better at writing tutorials than me will show you how to use movie maker, there is even videos on it.

Google will help you find tutorials on eveything from editing video to creating a website or a blog like this one, and the easiest way to search is to ask google the same way you would ask a friend, how do I ???, where can I find??? and so on, after a while why not learn how to properly use google to get better results and guess what the best way to find that is.

The internet is full of great free stuff and software is just one of them, you can basically fill your entire computer from an operating system to full office software and even virus and spyware protection without paying for any of it, try searches on open source or free software and see what you can come up with before you buy anything.

http://www.centralpcrepairs.co.uk/

UPDATE:

Just as I was posting this a nice new version just for Vista and Windows 7 has arrived, you can check it out here

Laptop Repairs Falkirk

If your laptop is in need of repair then Central PC Repairs is your best option in the Central Region area, based in Falkirk we have a free collection and delivery service including Stirling, Alloa, Linlithgow,Cumbernauld and even as far as Doune.
Laptop repairs are at set at a fixed price, screen repairs are carried out at £30 plus the cost iof the screen, DC Jack repairs are capped at £75 and software repairs are only £40.

visit our website for more details
http://www.centralpcrepairs.co.uk/

Computer Repairs in Falkirk

Central PC Repairs offers a free collection and delivery service and fixed fee repairs, our labour charge for software and most hardware repairs is capped at £40 so you have peace of mind that the repairs are not going to cost a small fortune.
http://www.centralpcrepairs.co.uk/